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Can anyone explain me if fluoromethane (CH3F) can hydrogen bond with water (H2O)? Here is my thinking... Water can form a hydrogen bond simply because it has a hydrogen attached to an oxygen, but this has to come into contact with a lone pair from a second electronegative atom, in this case F in fluromethane. So, in theory, shouldn´t there be a hydrogen bond? Though, CH3F is insoluble in H2O...